Recently, Wells Fargo was in the news because of a datacenter outage. Various reports suggested that they had power interruption and fires within the facility. The outage impacted debit card transactions and online banking. Howeve...

FaunaDB 2.6 introduces new capabilities for string and math functions in Fauna Query Language (FQL). String functions are built-in database functions for string manipulations that developers can leverage out of the box in their co...

One of the most exciting features of the FaunaDB 2.6 release is the automated log topology. Prior to this release, setting up the log topology was a manual process where an enterprise operator had to decide on a log topology upfro...

In my experience with enterprise application development, the pattern I’ll illustrate in this series fits a wide range of collaborative apps. Most apps have some form of login, and once users are identified, they’re able to partic...

I’ve written a handful of articles about this code and the access control pattern it uses in previous blogs. Moving forward I’ll group articles related to this code example as a series: Building a Serverless JAMStack App with Faun...

Going into a new year, it’s important to review where you’ve come from. In 2017, Fauna established itself in the serverless ecosystem. In 2018, FaunaDB’s relational capabilities brought in high-value workloads like distributed led...

The database renaissance began with the NoSQL movement, broadly, around 2008 as the technical demands of a new wave of consumer internet companies operating at huge scale (Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon) outstripped the capabil...

A common problem in business applications is change capture, which enables use cases like audit logging, history browsing, and value attribution for content optimization. In finance, audit logs are useful for regulatory compliance...

We are pleased to announce a new white paper to follow up on Fauna CEO Evan Weaver's recent modern history of NoSQL database solutions (Back to the future with Relational NoSQL published in InfoQ). This new white paper is now avai...

When we introduced the Fauna Shell, one of our goals was to make FaunaDB easier to use. In that article, we showed you how to get started with FaunaDB by using our serverless cloudoffering. Of course, we want to offer more, transf...